You're right that boxrec sucks, and unless they get put in front of those punch bag machines you can't measure the force. I don't see the similarities in maidana and especially pacquiaos attack vs Floyd against golovkin vs canelo. What makes you think otherwise?
And ignore that dude, he's just looking for arguments.
I just need to preface by saying that the views that I'm about to express are very unconventional, not official criterion, and clearly no one on sherdog agrees with. I’ll try to keep it short.
I value aggression and I also value counter punching, both very highly. But I've determined that, to me, outside of what any judge or official rules say, aggression should be slightly more valuable.
The reason being, it is a fight, and it takes two to fight. It is acceptable to be defensive, but to be credited as having clearly won a particular round, the defensive party should be very obviously more effective beyond any doubt than his more aggressive opponent.
If we do not reward aggression, fighters are incentivized to conserve and simply do as little work as possible, and fighters who push forward are punished for being proactive and the sport will not have as entertaining fights as it should have at the top level.
In Maidana vs Mayweather, Maidana was very very clearly, extremely aggressive, throwing magnitudes more punches than Mayweather, bombarding Mayweather in the head, neck, groin, back..wherever he could touch him. Meanwhile, Mayweather would throw a shot or two and land not as clean as needed to justify winning the whole round. But he won them anyways.
Similar to Mayweather, Canelo was being walked down for significant portions of the fight. But unlike Mayweather, Canelo was throwing back a lot more and oftentimes landing very significant, clean shots (regardless of whether it hurt GGG or not). To me, Canelo’s output combined with a high number of clean strikes warranted him winning 6 rounds. For rounds where both styles were effective, I don’t like to arbitrarily assign a winner simply because it’s inaccurate and gives rise to biased scorecards. There were 3 such rounds for me, and 3 where I thought GGG’s aggression was more effective than Canelo’s counterattack. Thus, to me Canelo won 6-3-3 with a possible draw if I were to arbitrarily assign close rounds to GGG. And an Adelaide Byrd esque 9-3 Canelo scorecard if I liked Canelo more.
For the record, I had a lot of money on Mayweather when he fought Maidana, and was pretty nervous after 12. I don’t see how Floyd obviously won like how everyone sees it these days.
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It's like in mma, where folks feel a fighter can "steal a round" with a takedown. Oftentimes, no "fighting" comes after these superficial takedowns and they actually stifle the action, and yet folks are still winning rounds this way(see Hendricks Lawler I, Hendricks Condit, Nunes Shevchenko). I'd like the rules to favor proactivity for the betterment of combat sports.
